Responsibilities

As Sunday school is improving, I found it necessarily to clarify some Points, to avoid misunderstanding and encourage everyone to accomplish his/her mission in the best possible way, and also to encourage Brothers and Sisters To share and work together for the well being of our community and to do their Job for the sake of Allah alone and He is the best payer for the sincere work
· Imam’s responsibility as a principal of Sunday school:
The creation and implementation of a shared school vision
The nurturing and sustaining of a culture and instructional program conducive to learning and staff development
The ensuring of the management of school operations to produce a safe and effective learning environment
The collaboration with families and the diverse communities schools serve
The promotion of integrity, fairness, and ethical behavior
The interaction with larger political, social, legal, and cultural contexts of schooling

· Sister Um Adam as Imam’s assistant, she is responsible for:
· Responsible for student discipline, classroom observations, teacher evaluation and supervision, facilitating parent meetings, maintaining schedules, and handling logistical matters. Additionally, assistant principals frequently serve as testing coordinators, training staff on procedures related to standardized assessment, as well as accounting for testing materials. In addition to these duties, assistant principals are instructional leaders.

· Sister Um Ibrahim as a Supervisor is responsible for:
1. Mentoring or providing for mentoring of beginning teachers to facilitate a supportive induction into the profession.
2. Bringing individual teachers up to minimum standards of effective teaching (quality assurance and maintenance functions of supervision).
3. Improving individual teachers' competencies, no matter how proficient they are deemed to be.
4. Working with groups of teachers in a collaborative effort to improve student learning.
5. Working with groups of teachers to adapt the local curriculum to the needs and abilities of diverse groups of students, while at the same time bringing the local curriculum in line with state and national standards.
6. Relating teachers' efforts to improve their teaching to the larger goals of school wide improvement in the service of quality learning for all children.

· Teacher’s responsibilities:
· Conventionally viewed as dispensers of knowledge, teachers are increasingly perceived as facilitators or managers of knowledge. They are often thought to be co- learners with their students. Few modern teachers would try to claim intellectual hegemony ([1])in the classroom; such a claim would not stand the challenge of increasingly sophisticated students. There is too much to know and too many sources of knowledge outside the classroom that can easily be brought to bear within school walls by students themselves. Teachers teach, of course, but they do not simply dispense information to their students. Teachers are also intellectual leaders who create opportunities for students to demonstrate what they know and what they know how to do.
May Allah accept the humble effort for his sake and have mercy on us, our families and community.
Note: Brother (Majid- trainer) is going to have a work shop with Sunday school teachers at the end of March- 2009.We request the presence of Sunday school teachers and administrative stuff. (Time after Dhuhur prayer- we look to have a teacher lunch after workshop)
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[1] The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others